Work & commute · Versailles

Work & commute in Versailles, KY

Most working residents leave Versailles for work: only 15% work in town. The top destinations are Lexington-Fayette urban county (36%), Frankfort (5%) and Georgetown (3%). Half commute less than 12 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

15%

696 of 4,759 working residents

Typical commute

12 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

25 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

13%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 4,063 Versailles residents head out of town to work, 696 work right here, and 4,319 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Versailles.

4,063live here, work elsewhere

696live and work here

4,319work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Versailles goes to work

Lexington-Fayette urban county14.5 mi away

36%1,728

Versailles (in town)right here

15%696

Frankfort12.7 mi away

5%261

Georgetown17.8 mi away

3%132

Nicholasville13.9 mi away

2%72

Midway7.1 mi away

1%69

Lawrenceburg9.8 mi away

1%56

Jeffersontown47.2 mi away

1%35

Richmond32.1 mi away

1%35

Elizabethtown67.4 mi away

1%30

Everywhere elseother towns and states

35%1,645

Lines run between town centers; a thicker line means more commuters. The top 10 towns each way.

How far

How far Versailles commutes

Straight-line distance from home to work, for every working resident. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.

32%

46%

13%

32%Under 10 mi

46%10–24 mi

8%25–50 mi

13%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Versailles is balanced between jobs and homes

1.05jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.05 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Versailles are

5,015 jobs are based in Versailles. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Versailles’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Versailles

5,015 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)29%

Trade, transport & utilities21%

Services (health, schools, offices…)50%

$1,250 a month or less17%

$1,251–$3,333 a month27%

Over $3,333 a month56%

Jobs Versailles residents hold

4,759 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)19%

Trade, transport & utilities17%

Services (health, schools, offices…)64%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month26%

Over $3,333 a month58%

−7%

Jobs based in Versailles, 2013 → 2023: 5,411 → 5,015. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.

About these numbers

How to read this page

Every worker, home to workThe Census links each worker’s home block to their main job’s block, for jobs covered by unemployment insurance. That’s most jobs, but not the self-employed.

Where the employer saysA job counts where the employer reports it. Some big employers report one address for many sites, which can make a few commutes look longer than they are.

Two surveysFlows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2023. Commute time and working from home: the Census American Community Survey.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs; American Community Survey 5-year estimates.